Andrei Lankov

Andrei Lankov (26 July 1963-) was a Russian scholar at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea and a specialist in Korean history.

Biography
Andrei Lankov was born on 26 July 1963 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day St. Petersburg, Russia) and studied at Leningrad State University and Kim Il-sung University during the 1980s. In 1989 he completed his graduate studies at Leningrad and taught Korean language and history there, going to South Korea in 1992 for work. From 1996 to 2004 he lived in Australia and taught there, but in 2004 he returned to South Korea to become a professor at Kookmin University in Seoul. Fluent in Russian, Korean, and English, Lankov wrote for The Korea Times and Al-Jazeera English.